Ananta Singh

Ananta Singh (1 December 1903-25 January 1979) was an Indian communist revolutionary who took part in the 1930 Chittagong armory raid.

Biography
Ananta Singh was born in Chittagong, Bengal Presidency, British Raj on 1 December 1903, descended from a line of Punjabi Rajputs. He met Surya Sen while he was a student and became one of Sen's followers, taking part in several Anushilan Samiti resistance activities. On 18 April 1930, he took part in the Chittagong armory raid, and he was imprisoned until 1946. He joined the Communist Party of India upon his release, and he was responsible for regular bank robberies in Calcutta as the leader of a communist revolutionary movement there. From 1969 to 1977, he was imprisoned by the government, and he died in 1979.